The casting information sent out for the character is for a male character, and they were looking for someone Asian.
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Marvel Studios officially announces The Eternals for November 6, 2020 (directed by Chloé Zhao, starring Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, and many more)
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The casting information sent out for the character is for a male character, and they were looking for someone Asian.
So I feel really dumb asking this but are we even going to see these actors in the movies or will they all be CGI characters who look like that big monster dude in the guardians infinity stone exposition dump?
Or are they people beneath that armour/ costume?
Or are they people beneath that armour/ costume?
The big monster guys are Celestials, the creators of the Eternals. The Eternals look human.
I saw Angelina Jolie in person two years ago and this may sound stupid but she seriously looked like she had some kind of otherworldly beauty
Galactus is the last survivor of the previous universe when it experienced its heat death. He is basically a living entity of entropy and a force of nature not a celestial or eternal.
Think he has a master's degree in drama from Yale. He's like the total opposite of his ATL character. Dude has some serious skills.
Yeah, the work he does with Paperboy is amazing, and it bummed me out of all the four he was getting less roles.
Not that the others don't deserve it Tho.
"We can't use mutants yet, but we want to do stories that involve characters with powers like mutants, who can we use" seems to be the uniting factor between Marvel's attempts to force the Inhumans and the Eternals into the forefront.
DC's doing the same damn thing with the New Gods, though, so I guess unrelatable godlike space-people are too hard to resist for both groups.
Yeah I am not super familiar with them but it doesn't seem like we are getting any of the Titanian Eternals in this movie yet? It's all Earth-based?
Wonder if a Thanos flashback scene is out of the cards
Do you see Marvel adopting the notion of classic medieval aestheticery in their ancient civilizations? Or will they abandon it because it may not work in the MCU, have been done already in tons of films in the past, whether good or bad?
And do the comics have an entrenched history with Greek Mythology, or have they ceded that to DC?
Greek Myth is entrenched in the comics. Both Hercules and Ares are Marvel characters.
Um, the Eternals are based on Greek myth too. Ikaris/Ikarus, Makkari/Mecury, Thena/Athena
But is it on the level of DC's presence in Greek Mythology? Also, I'm somewhat familiar with how Marvel and DC portrayed Asgard and Themyscira respectively. They were more in line with how Hollywood depicted their fantasy films in the 1970's. I found Asgard's portrayal in Thor 2011 to be somewhat jarring. If the film had been made in 2000, the studios would be struggling to figure out how Asgard's design would look like because they would have completely ruled out Thor 2011's amalgamated futuristic designs.
If the Eternals is Marvel's unique take on Greek mythology, will they have tech similar to Asgard, or could we see a throwback to the classic fantasy aesthetics?
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Eternals aren't the Greek gods. I think they just inspired some religions in the world. They're like Kirby's New God's in DC. The Greek gods in marvel are separate.
True, but they don't run around as the actual Greek gods like Ares and Hercules.
Though who knows, maybe that's the way they run with it, though I doubt it.
I would not at all be surprised if Hercules pops up somewhere down the line. Hopefully in a film with Thor.
Hercules is definitely coming at some point, Ares too probably.
Yep, we need to get better with gay male representation. It's years away from gay women (although both are still bad).
Ehhhhhh you're mixing your own comic knowledge and assumptions into what you're hoping it is. They haven't really made the Thanos and Eternals/Deviants connections yet in the MCU. Don't forget what works in comics don't always translate well to movies. Audiences so far have shown tolerance for comic shenanigans with the MCU but there is a limit.
I'm not saying they won't try to make that connection, it certainly makes sense and it's a great springboard for them. I'm talking about the reasoning for trying to introduce these groups in the first place. They don't need anything to "introduce" the X-men. It's a convenient track but the Eternals was announced well before the Fox acquisition so it wasn't the point to begin with.
And I heard the "they will turn them into a billion dollar franchise" stuff before with Inhumans. And the Inhumans had the benefit of being a little more well known property with a slightly more digestible story. I like both properties, don't get me wrong on that. I'm just saying let's be real about what their intentions were with both Inhumans and Eternals in the MCU. And what I'm trying to say is regardless the quality of the Eternals movie it's going to get dropped like a hot potato like Inhumans was. Marvel has there golden goose back now.
And people joke about how many movies they put out but they realistically have a finite amount of resources to churn out movies and they now have a metric shit-ton of characters and stories added to their pool now. The honchos at Marvel Studios are not going to be saying "Let's greenlight Eternals 2 over Wolverine, X-Force, x-Men 2 and 3, Doctor Doom, Icemans Summers vacation or H.E.R.B.I.E.s Magical Negative Zone Adventure. And that's like a fraction of what they have available to do now. That's not including already proven continuing properties for them.
This completely ignores the actual circumstances of the Inhumans coming and going and seems to equate Eternals and Inhumans, and somehow equate Eternals and X-Men too. Furthermore, you act like Marvel can only do one film at a time with the "We have to do X-Men 2, not Eternals 2" thing, and more ridiculously, that Disney don't want an additional blockbuster franchise from Marvel? Why would you have just X-Men when you can have X-Men and Eternals as two blockbuster MCU series?
Marvel aren't going to drop everything just because they have X-Men and Fantastic Four back. They've shown time and time again they can make their lesser known heroes into household names, and in many ways, it's smarter to do that. X-Men have had a 20 year film franchise, hurrying back into that is foolish. They need a break and they need to be very carefully developed in the MCU.
The Forgotton One aka Gilgamesh aka Don Lee has beef with Herc for taking credit for some of his feats
Sweet as all new actor entering the stage hugs the one before but Salma Hayek totally breaks the combo lol. And Brian Tyree Henry is like "ok.. that's cool"
But that's great to see him in there actually! I don't really care for the others.
You don't hire Angelina Jolie, pay her a huge sum of money, just to quietly release her film with no marketing.
SOOOOoo
I read the comic last night. And btw... the way it sorta of went. Its fucking boring and then it doesnt even conclude properly.
I honestly can't see this being an interesting adaptation.
and why is
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and why isnt Jolie Sersi? Why is she Thena?
I read the comic last night. And btw... the way it sorta of went. Its fucking boring and then it doesnt even conclude properly.
I honestly can't see this being an interesting adaptation.
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and why isnt Jolie Sersi? Why is she Thena?
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re: the gay character
By making Makkari female, she's got a relationship with Sersi. So that's the LGBT relationship in this?
I saw on Reddit that they haven't cast Sersi or didn't want to announce it yet? Because Sersi is now a man. Not sure how reliable the rumour is though.
its weird they flipped the genders heaps in the casting
Sprite.
Sersi (if true)
Makkari
Ajak
are all gender swapped.
of course, the comic featured:
TONY STARK/ironman
so I think the plot will be quite different possibly.
Yes If Guardians of the Galaxy is anything to go by it will be quite different. I'm not ruling out them casting first and adjusting the characters to fit the actors as well.